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lfi-uman, Otlie1:,Qfficials Deny !To Officials
l(nowledge ()f F1'vi]Jo· Saucers raised the question at yesterday's
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meetil1g of the Armed Forces Pol-
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icy Council, which includes the
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departmental secretaries and Joint
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NavY Secretary
Top offic1a s and agen~ies of the mild form of mass hysteria, or Francis Matthews and Admiral
Government-from President Tru- hoaxes:"
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' Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval
man on down-joined yesterday in
Earlier, Pres1den~ Truman an-· operations, as well as other offi­
an effort to convince the American nounced through lus press secre- cials, assured him the denials were
public that "flying saucers" do not tary at Key West. F~a., that he sincere ·and truthful.
exist.
kn~w ab~olutely nothing of such
The latest flareup of public in-
A formal statement issued by flyrng ob3ects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from
the Air Force last night was most t!1eUnited States or any other' na- statements by Radio Commentator
explicit. It declared flatly that:
tion.
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Henry J. Taylor and the weekly
1. None of the armed forces Is
"We are not denying this be- news magazine United States News
conducting secret experiments with cause of any development of secret and World Report that the saucers
"disc-shaped flying objects which weapons." s~id Secretary Charles do exist and are revolutionar~
could be a basis for the 1·eportcd G. Ross. "but purely because we American aircraft probably devel­
phenomena."
'.now of nothing to support these oped by the NavY, A Navy spokes­
2. There is no evidence that the rumors."
man flatly denied this Monday!.
latter stem from "the activities orl ~ efense Secretary Louis Johnson1 Johnson said he is convinc_ed the
any foreign nation."
lsatd about the same thmg at a· saucers could not be experiments
Evaluation of reports of re- 11ews conference. He told reporters conducted by any other Govern­
cen "sightings" bears out early ~1e was ''satisfied there is nothing ment agency outside his depart­
co lusions that all can be ex- 10 the reports."
ment because the Pentagon's Re­
pla ed away as "misinterpretation
Johnson said' he had facetiously sea~·ch and Developme~t. Board co•
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of arious conventional objects, a
See SAUCER, Page 3,
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9l dmates all such activity.
Despite the denials, new reports
of "saucers" continued. At Tipp
City, Ohio, nine persons said they
saw saucers over the Ail" Force
base at Wright Field, early Sunday.
Jerry Robinson,
a
22-year-old
Marine veteran, speaking for the
group, said they saw "two brigh
lights in the sky" which later wer
discerned as brilliant discs trailin
a ~-~n streak of 01·ange flame.
Nter hover ing for a time, thel
shot. straight up in the air 1md
disappeared, he said.
Police Chief J . C. Lee of Eliza­
beth City, 111., reported that "a
weird red and blue disc-like ob­
ject" whizzed o~er the town early
SundaY, "traveling at a high rate
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